Spectrum of belief : Joseph von Fraunhofer and the craft of precision optics /

"In the nineteenth century, scientific practice underwent a dramatic transformation from personal endeavor to business enterprise. In Spectrum of Belief, Myles Jackson uses the career of the optician Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787-1826) to probe the relationship between science and society, and th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jackson, Myles W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2000.
Colección:Transformations (MIT Press)
Temas:
Fraunhofer, Joseph von, > 1787-1826 > Knowledge > Optics.
Fraunhofer, Joseph von, > 1787-1826
Von Fraunhofer, Joseph, > (1787-1826)
Fraunhofer, Joseph ((von))
Spectrum analysis > History.
Physicists > Germany > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
SCIENCE > History.
Optics
Physicists
Spectrum analysis
Optisches Instrument
Präzisionsinstrument
Optica.
Spectrumanalyse.
Lenzen.
Optique > Histoire > 19ème siècle.
Germany
PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Science & Technology
collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"In the nineteenth century, scientific practice underwent a dramatic transformation from personal endeavor to business enterprise. In Spectrum of Belief, Myles Jackson uses the career of the optician Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787-1826) to probe the relationship between science and society, and that between artisans and experimental natural philosophers, during this transformation."--Jacket
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 284 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780262276160
026227616X
0262293609
9780262293600
1423730879
9781423730873

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